# Amputations involving bone loss at Hawkeye Fiber Optics
> OSHA SIR `2025010970` · 1/30/2025 · SUMNER, MAINE
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle or object propelled by another vehicle in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Roadway vehicle  motorized, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
## Employer
- **Name:** Hawkeye Fiber Optics
- **Location:** 510 Bonney Rd, SUMNER, MAINE, 04292
- **NAICS:** 237130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting a lineman to get a wire strand unstuck from a reel. A vehicle was driving by and caught the strand on the ground; the employee's arm and hand were caught by the strand and crushed in the reel. The employee sustained amputations to fingers and required surgery for her hand. Some fingers were reattached.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*